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Northern and Southern Colonies Differences

The Northern and Southern Colonies of North America were politically, economically, and culturally very different from one another. The people of northern and southern colonies came to the new world for very different reasons and as time went on their differences would only grow. The differences between them would ultimately culminate in the American Civil War, which took place in the mid-nineteenth century and nearly ended destroyed, the country we know today. For that reason, it is important that we understand how the northern and southern colonies grew so separately from each other.
In today's world when we think about the southern colonies of early America, we think of slavery. It is true that slavery did become a major part of life in the southern colonies, but it did not start out that way. Originally southern colonies depended on a servant labor system. Nearly eighty percent of the workers in the Chesapeake were indentured......

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